Comments on: Belichick to reporters: I’m not giving minute-by-minute Tebow newshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/06/12/belichick-to-reporters-im-not-giving-minute-by-minute-tebow-news/
ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.comTue, 31 Mar 2015 22:19:56 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: wgray981http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/06/12/belichick-to-reporters-im-not-giving-minute-by-minute-tebow-news/#comment-2590392
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:57:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2590392The Patriots are SMART and won’t let Tebow be a distraction. They can use him effectively
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:13:58 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2590192This is insane. The NFL is about the NOW. What can you do for the team NOW? Not what you did two years and teams ago. Matt Ryan loses a playoff game and he’s shredded. Tim Tebow loses a playoff game, gets traded, get’s a parade, get’s benched, get’s cut and gets signed by the Pats with the thinnest chance a backup QB has ever had in the history of the league to start a game at QB yet it’s MAJOR NEWS. Stop it already.
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:32:20 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2590067Gotta love BB. He should just start telling blatant lies next.

Reporter: How did Tebow look at practice today?

BB: Incredible! He had two perfect throws over 90 yards in the air, kicked a 75 yard field goal, blocked two punts, made 9 tackles with 5 forced fumbles and ran a kickoff back for a TD.

“we’re not going to get into a minute-by-minute evaluation of a player.”

but you got me to click the story and leave a comment with your enticing headline. your boss would be proud!

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:39:58 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589402Not that Tebow needs any help, but if members of the press want to sabotage Tebow’s career they should just keep asking lots of questions about him until it’s just not worth keeping him.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589376Love how he handles the media. They will only be told when he feels like it. He has a team to run and he has to answer to no one!
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:09:29 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589353Not a Pats fan, but good for Belichick to control the media from day 1. Unlike the Jests where the Rex Ryan clowns ran rampant, Belichick is putting a stop to the circus before it gets started. Then again, he knew what comes with Tebow: media circus, Tebowmaniacs, Gator fans (those who have ever travelled outside the South), televangelists, etc.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:09:02 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589352The non-answers approach is working at the moment, but unless he throws the media an occasional Tebow bone, he’ll reach a point that after a big game, he’s getting 90% Tebow questions.

And then league might be forced to do something the Patriots REALLY don’t want to do, which is make Tebow available for interviews.

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:06:16 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589343Wait till his teammates start getting asked the same question every day. You know somebody is going to slip and call him out for what he is, a really nice, hardworking guy.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:03:58 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589338Maybe PFT should just not talk about Tebow anymore.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:02:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589336O hoodie.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:02:46 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589335If I was CEO of a Fortune 500 company and people kept asking me how the janitor was doing I’d be annoyed too.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:00:15 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589330Belichick is actually a funny guy. He’s got a bad wrap from his days in Cleveland where the media practically killed him. He’s never forgotten that and he knows where his bread is buttered and the media ain’t it. The media has grown more and more insufferable across the board. It’s like they want life to be one big reality TV show. What he is doing now is what he has always done, which is to recruit smart, fast, tough, football players, preferably that can play multiple positions in a league limited in roster size and salary cap, and then get them all on point with one voice and the central theme of TEAM FIRST. Then, he shuts out the circus. Good thing too, because the New England sports media is historically negative and self defeating of the local sports teams.

I caught a glimpse of his press conference where they asked him how he felt about the number of media at practice and he said in his monotone grumble….

“… …I think we’ve played in front of bigger crowds than this……… [and]……Gee, I hope we have more people than this show up to our games………

He must piss his pants laughing every time he sees himself on ESPN…. Remember this is a guy that has some pretty ecclectic tastes and friends that fights to maintain his personal privacy from the media because he knows the flimsiness of celebrity life that he could have any time he wants it because of his monstrous success.

This guy loves the Grateful Dead, reads Harry Potter, and counts some of the best days of his life growing up at the US Naval Academy, presiding over his college’s Animal House fraternity which he kept from being shut down for infractions, and belting out the 1960s pop hit “Love Potion No. 9” for family and friends on a sunny afternoon on his beloved Nantucket. He visits prisons and gangs with Jim Brown and his Amer I Can group, who says he trusts, respects, and loves Bill and can say that about very few people in his life. Tony Larussa credits him with being so ridiculously generous with his time, and with helping him guide the Cardinals to a World Series Title. He spearheaded the drive to get the guy who beat him out for the starting center job on his college team, inducted to the schools athletic hall of fame after he found out later in life the guy was diagnosed with cancer. He mentors kids and remembers and visits those who mentored him as a child as they age. He’s involved in many other things charity related. He’s also good friends with Jon Bon Jovi.

Anyone that knows the guys says he has a huge heart, yet we are constantly spoon fed the idea that this is a bad man. Spare me the “he broke a 2006 rule in the first game of 2007″ stuff. By all accounts it was meaningless gamesmanship. How the media failed to report this accurately boggles the mind and shows you just how hard they work to create a story that doesn’t exist in order to suit their own end game. If you were Belichick, would you give these guys anything to write about?

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:54:50 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589317Leave the minute to minute updates, but only for the Jets. The circus is the only thing that could have 10 articles written a day for them – and still never get old and are always entertaining
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:48:07 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589298No doubt… Third string QB’s shouldn’t get any attention… no press conferences… They should only be trying to get better. I never seen a person get so much attention just cause he believes in something that 9 out 10 Americans do according to most recent statistics.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:46:36 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589294I give Belichick credit. It is going to be him versus the unrelenting Tebow media. I hope for the player’s sake that he can get a handle on it. Tebow is not a great player, but he is one worth looking at if the media nonsense surrounding him would lighten up.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:45:39 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589290peepeetoucher says:
Jun 12, 2013 3:16 PM
Lol @ everyone thinking BB is such a genius n is going to stop the circus. Just not answering questions isnt going to make the media go away. They will just write a story about BB not answering questions about Tebow like this one. They will always find a way to insert Tebows name into an article cuz they know he creates viewers n traffic to their media outlet. You think the media will just stop caring about how they make money cuz BB wont talk to them? Now I see why pats fans are so arrogant cuz BB is n they just mimic him. The hoodie will never stop tebowmania but his ego thinks he can.
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So what if they find ways to write about Tebow anyway? They won’t get any media firestorms out of the Pats, and that is what BB cares about. How “arrogant” of BB to not want his coaches or players to have to spend 99% of their media availability talking about a third string QB! THE NERVE of that man.

How much did you hear from Chad Johnson, media darling when he was there? There were still lots of media talking about him, how he fit, etc. but none of that was based on leading comments made by any Patriot coach or player. Case closed.

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:37:41 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589277Belichick is like the computer, garbage in = garbage out. The media asked him garbage questions, they get garbage answers. Love it !!Best of luck to Tim Tebow though, this kid deserves a chance to prove himself.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:34:42 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589273New England is all about the “team concept”, no ONE is above the team, including Brady! Especially not a third string quarterback.

As good as BB is at handling the Media, Parcells was even better, meaner, right in their face with a sarcastic answer if asked a stupid question.

I hope the media keeps it up, it’s a great daily laugh reading BBs responses.

BB loves players who can play multiple positions. Tebow is in New England and will stay if BB thinks he can help the team. The media’s opinion will not influence him at all.

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:27:33 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589256The #1 job for Belichick (or any head coach) is to prepare his team to win games. The press conferences are a by-product of the TV deals, which ultimately come back to our need to know what is going on. Now, the media can twist what they think we want to know and give us endless crap we don’t want, but if we weren’t watching it, they wouldn’t be on the air. I really like that Belichick laid down now how he is going to deal with the Tebow situation, rather than talking too much now (like Rex) and getting called on it later if he cut back. Let Tebow play ball, whatever position he is at, and try to make the team without the hoopla.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:22:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589251true sign that the apocolypse is upon us. Last week Justin Bieber was able to get all of PFT planet support Keyshawn Johnson, now this week the Media/Tebowmania is able to get all of PFT Planet to support Belichick.

Whats next? 40 years of darkness? Earthquakes? Volcanoes? The dead rising from the grave? Dogs and cats, living together, Mass Hysteria?

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:21:28 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589247Lets all list our fav teams 3rd stringer since they’re all the rage….. Ill go first, Jags – Mike Kafka (sp?)
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:17:37 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589238I think it’s ironic when the media complains about tebowmania. Wilbon did it yesterday on pti. It’s like the NSA complaining about lack of privacy.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:16:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589237Seriously, why would anyone sign this guy? I mean, I’m a jets fan & as much as I hate NE, I have a healthy respect for them. Even if belicheck answers the questions in team form vs. Tebow…it’s still annoying. The guy is a total distraction and he brings nothing to the team. I seriously doubt NE keeps him past preseason — I think they want to see what he could do and like NY they will be disappointed.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:16:06 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589235Lol @ everyone thinking BB is such a genius n is going to stop the circus. Just not answering questions isnt going to make the media go away. They will just write a story about BB not answering questions about Tebow like this one. They will always find a way to insert Tebows name into an article cuz they know he creates viewers n traffic to their media outlet. You think the media will just stop caring about how they make money cuz BB wont talk to them? Now I see why pats fans are so arrogant cuz BB is n they just mimic him. The hoodie will never stop tebowmania but his ego thinks he can.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:15:16 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589233Brilliant signing by the Patriots. All the tough questions are now avoided because the media has a new shiny ball to play with. They can talk about Tebow all season long for all I care.
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:11:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589224I think TEBOW himself needs to put a stop to all this before he finds his way to “what team am i going to next” we just went through this whole mess with the Jets. The FOOLISH media is talking about a BACKUP QB not even the BACKUP the THIRD STRINGER!!
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:57:36 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589190Yeah, if you didn’t want a media firestorm, maybe you shouldn’t have signed the target of a massive media firestorm… Just sayin
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:53:40 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2190896#comment-2589182Tim tebow has had more interviews than completed passes since he’s been in the nfl. If any team can handle it ..its the pats but I don’t see this as a true opportunity for. Him unless mcdaniel drafted him for eye candy in denver than I guess he could get a spot .. he’s an athlete without a position
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